Reviews: Mitchison, Naomi

Memoirs of a Spacewoman —
Naomi Mitchison

Assessing
Naomi
Mitchison
by her science fiction is a bit like assessing Charles
Darwin by his golf game. But her 1962 standalone
Memoirs
of a Spacewoman
is
the only work of hers I have read, so … here we are.

The
humans who set out to explore the rest of universe are a far more
mature lot than the explorers who landed on Mars and Venus. In its
youth, humanity was aggressive and expansionist. Now humans and their
Martian partners take a more enlightened and dispassionate view of
the universe.